Global Issues and Activism in English Language Teaching

Journals and Article Collections

Below are some journals, newsletters and article collections that are available online. The first two lists deal with English teaching, while the others contain journals dealing more generally with teaching about global issues, social justice and environmental issues. All of them have extensive, free online archives. If you find another that you feel should be added to this list, please email me.

Language & Ecology is dedicated to research which analyzes language not only within a social context, but also within an ecological context. The main focus is on the links between discursively constructed social reality, ecological sustainability, and environmental justice.

Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy doesn’t have an explicit language focus, but a lot of what they address is relevant to content-based instruction and critical pedagogy. Their archives are freely available, but I’m not sure if they are still publishing new articles. The last issue on their website is from 2009.

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I am an English language teacher and teacher trainer. Global issues in TEFL is my current passion but my knowledge and know-how of them is very limited as if I and my student-teachers are not global citizens who are also responsible for the degradation that we are supposed to repair before handing to our children.

Michael – You shouldn’t have to pay to publish an ESL paper in any of the sites mentioned above. Another good place to start would be a newsletter for one of the special interest groups in TESOL or IATEFL. Good luck!